ne closed captioning by closed captioning services,inc >> announcer: right now breaking news. sky hd live over cherry street dozens of police are investigating what the chp is telling us is a fatal rollover

accident involving two burglary suspects. >> police are saying nothing about how this crash happened. you can see the vehicle there. dozens of police have shutdown parts of maori and cherry while they investigate this rollover accident. >> we have a reporter headed to the scene we'll bring you updates as we get them. good morning i'm cheryl jennings. >> and i'm kristen sze. governor brown wrapped up his second state of the state dress half an hour ago. california -- has problems but rumors off its demise are greatly exaggerated. >> the governor says californians have a choice. a campaign if get his tax enoughive on the november ballot. katie marzullo joins us with the story. >> reporter: governor did come out on a positive note saying california is on the men.

he zeroed in on taxes and schools. -- as he wants voters to say yes to temporary tax hikes his plan to raise 35 billion dollars in five years through higher sales taxes and higher income tax on the wealthy. q is responsible and includes spending cuts. it is said the road to hell is paved with good intentions digging ourselves into a deep financial hole to do good is bad. in this time of uncertainty, prudence and paying down debt is the best policy. >> reporter: as for students the governor is pushing for less standardized testing. and he wants results to the schools schooner. he says too much class time is devoted to memorizing tests answers than teaching and learning he wants a program to evaluate schools he embraces

reform and tradition. he talked about pension reform and how that math doesn't add up. he knows he needs support in wealthy and conservative areas of southern california. that's why he is on his way to los angeles right now, immediately following that speech. he's going to hit burbank, irvine and san diego before the end of the week. as for republican lawmakers they've scheduled a response to the address scheduled for 3:00 this afternoon. katie marzullo, abc7 news. if you would like to watch the governor's address in its entirety you can go to abc7news.com look under see it on tv. pink slips going out to oakland employees as a are you you have massive loss in state funding. more lay-off notices are being sent out than previously reported. terry mcsweeney is live at oakland city hall. what is the new figure? >> reporter: we knew about the

1500 fulltime employees being notified today they might be laid off in two weeks. we are getting word an additional 1,000 part-time employees will also be notified, they too may be laid off in two weeks. take a look at some people going into oakland city hall today. you have to wonder what is going on through their minds? a spokesman for the city tells me it is going like this january 25th, the council will consider which jobs to eliminate. january 31st, the decision will be made on which 200 jobs will be eliminated. 2500 people being notified they might be laid off. 200 being laid off, pause the state has taken away 25 to 30 million dollars in redevelopment agency money. the agency going away. no comment from city officials yet today. they were talking about it yesterday. >> yes, we will have cuts. this is a question of changing

how we do business and what are the changes that we need to make. >> the city of oakland and the employees have been through lay-offs a lot, in the last three years since the recession started. so, i think there's a lot of fatalism now and resignation that you know, if your number is up, your number is up. >> reporter: no police officers are going to be impacted by this. the public works is expected to be hit hard. did talk to several employees no one seemed to know how it was going to work. they knew there was going to be a notice handed to them they didn't know when. one employee told me workers were pretty much asked not to talk to the media about it. another woman i spoke with by chance had just received her notice she might be laid off and she was extremely anxious. the final decision coming up january 31st. 200 people will be out of a job february 4th.

terry mcsweeney, abc7 news. the wife of san francisco's new sheriff went on a venezuelan radio station criticizing the domestic violence investigation against her husband. that interview comes a day after new details were released about the accusations against ross mirkarimi. amy hollyfield joins us from tampa city hall with more. >> reporter: good morning. a spokeswoman here says ross mirkarimi is here at work but doesn't want to . his wife has plenty to say. for the first time iliana=c2/ lopez is saying why she thinks ross mirkarimi is being charged with domestic violence-related crimes and who she thinks is to blame for his situation. she made the s to to -- comments to a venezuelan radio station. >> ross mirkarimi is a progressive who isn't backed by the powerbrokers of california. there's people with a lot of the money behind this political fight. the richest in california

are this. they can't stand that a progressive, who ran a campaign with very little money, won the election for sheriff. >> reporter: investigators say lopez confided in her neighbor, ivory madison. according to court documents lopez told madison that mirkarimi went ballistic during an argument that he pushed and grabbed her and she had madison take pictures of a bruise he left on her arm. madison called police, not lopez. >> we must find out what her motives are and who is backing her. that's what the lawyers and investigators will do. she waited four days to report this. she want to know who she talked to in those four days that convinced her to call the police. >> reporter: according to court documents mirkarimi yelled, f you, f you, when lopez asked if she could visit venezuela. lopez told a radio station it

was a discussion. investigators say they have two neighbors giving similar accounts. legal experts say that strengthens the case. the spouse cannot be compelled to testify. other witnesses can. if they come forward and they are sworn as witnesses and they refuse to answer questions they can be held in contempt of court until such time as they decide to testify. >> reporter: we have not been able to reach the neighbor ivory madison for comment. ross mirkarimi denies these charges. says he will fight them. he's due to face them in court tomorrow. amy hollyfield, abc7 news. the san francisco spca wants your help raising $5,000 to care for a stolen dog abused for months. we told you about toto last month snatched from a fenced in yard at a hayward home he was returned but his front

teeth and part of his left eye missing and several infections. he's slowly recovering and returning to the dog he he was before the kidnapping. police have made no arrests. joe biden is in san francisco for a day of fund rising -- fundraising. tickets from $2500 to $10,000.iv the money raise will be allocated to president obama's reelection campaign and the democratic national committee. biden's wife will be touring in palo alto. northwest is getting pounded now by what could be the biggest storm the area has seen in 25 years. it istdtut(ur'g flight delays and cancellations at a area airports. the storm has forced the cancellation of more than two dozen flights to seattle and portland if you are flying to either location check with the airlines. up to six inches of snow forecasted for seattle alone. the same system is expected to

bring us rain and snow to the sierra tomorrow and friday. meteorologist mike nicco will have more coming up. still ahead, why the government is hitting the red cross with a big fine. plus, off-line, the popular websites that have pulled the plug, to protest a new federal law. why they say the proposal would harm one of our most

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of rough seas that have moved the ship a bit. 22 people are still missing. the bodies of five were found yesterday raising the death toll to 11. the costa concordia had 400 onboard -- 4200 onboard when it slammed into a reef last friday. the captain is facing manslaughter and abandoning ship. a recording with the coast guard official he resisted orders to return to the ship to oversee the rescue efforts. wick paoedia shutdown its english -- pick pedia shutdown its english language website today. the words imagine a world without free knowledge greeted -- [ unintelligible ] many websites say the law goes too far. >> the right way to fix it is

not place censorship on the internet not to force google to stop listing them. not to force wick paoedia to stop talking about them. wikipedia. the right answer is follow the money. several say the bill threatens their livelihood. supporters including film and music industries say it is needed to protect property and jobs. handful of tickets for the sunday game between the 49ers and jets go on sail to the -- go on sale to the general public this afternoon. you can only get them online via the website or ticketmaster. tickets are expected to sell-out in minutes.

resalers will have tickets but peck to pay more than face val lieu -- value. two new parents will be going to the game sunday for free. they submitted the winning tweet to grab four tickets and field passes. york retreated that winning answer: my first child was born during sat's game the doctor let us watch during labor. would it be awesome to see the nfc champs. >> they do make niners onesies, right? >> nfl makes anything. make us some money too. we'll talk about the game, i think it is going to be dry the way it is looking now. there are the low clouds, moisture coming back includes keeps from freezing tonight. we'll talk when they open up and bring us rain, in a few

minutes. also, this toddler needs a kidney transplant why her parents say the hospital isn't allowing it and the online effort to save her life. >> the word used in tonight's "modern you can see h@

hours from maybe that storm. >> definitely opened up north 70 mile per hour gusts crescent city snow in seattle and portland they are all happy. bay area waiting for the rain. here's heavenly this may be the last time you see brown and green and the lack of white in tahoe. unless you watch tonight with swapbtd did and spencer because this -- with did and spencer because this isn't going to move in until tomorrow. low clouds, moisture we talked about the blanket effect keeping the frost away from us

no need to worry about pets, plants and pipes tonight. onshore flow developing low and upper level moisture moving in these two will connect with a warm front then a cold front that will bring the rains and heavy rains towards thursday especially friday. let's look at what is going on, mid to upper 40s except fairfield and los gatos. more sun around the monterey bay temperatures here upper 40s to low 50s. scattered light rain possible out of this moisture in the north bay scattered and light won't amount to much nor will the drizzle tonight you will find some of that tomorrow morning. the soaking rain starts tomorrow just about in everyday of the forecast. today mostly cloudy this afternoon, low to mid 50s with the chance of a scattered light rain in the north bay down around the monterey bay

more sun, temperatures hitting the mid to upper 50s tonight no freezing temperatures mid 30s as cool as it gets to mid 40s around san francisco and oakland. two areas of high pressure holding right now. they are definitely weakening eventually going to get pushed out of the way by the next system. warm weather hits first then the cold then we get a break and the next storm comes. at least we are going to have two to possible three before the weekend enters. noon radar returns along the northern part of the sonoma county, higher elevations may get a few sprinkles most of us dry today and tonight other than that chance of fizzle. towards the noon hour and 2:00, you see heaviest rain moving into the north bay, sliding out of the south bay by 7:00, a little break thursday night into friday morning drizzle for the friday morning commute. heavier rain moves in 4:00 friday evening into the north bay stays around until at

least 9:00 for the rest of the bay that's when we are going to hit with the one to two inches around the bay in higher elevations and possibly a half inch in the santa clara valley. during that time 10:00 tomorrow to 10 tomorrow evening the heaviest rain in the sierra, you will need chains above 6,000 feet. storm hits saturday, break sunday, more rain monday and tuesday. the door is almost open. fda is ordering the red cross to pay nearly 10 million dollars for blood safety lapses after federal inspectors reported finding hundreds of violations across the country, including ineffective donor screening and failure to add new donors with infected blood to the nationalist of defered donors. the fda says the violations are serious but did not compromise the blood supply. the red cross says they've already taken steps to address the concerns

>> family desperate to get their daughter a kidney transplant denied by doctors has taken their fight to the internet she was born with a genetic condition that causes mental and physical impairment. the family is willing to donate the organ children's hospital told them she was not a candidate because of her disabilities. >> he told us she wasn't eligible for a transplant because of her mental retardation. was the word that he used. >> it was upset -- it was upsetting. i think it was handled the wrong way. >> amelia's mother blogged about the controversy and her claim has caused a furor online. the hospital says it cannot comment on individual cases. tonight's episode of "modern family" is adding to the political debate over the

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